The redhead is back at Seattle Grace! ABC has confirmed that Kate Walsh, whose freshman show Private Practice is on hiatus until fall, will return to Grey’s Anatomy as Dr. Addison Montgomery for one episode this spring. Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes is still fleshing out the script, so there’s no word yet on when Walsh’s episode will air. ABC will air five originals of Grey’s beginning April 24.

The last time Addison was seen walking the hallways of Seattle Grace was in the series debut of Practice, which is this season’s second most-watched new drama (10.76 million). In the Practice pilot, Addison said goodbye to Seattle Grace to start a new life and career at the Oceanside Wellness Center in Southern California.

Jimmy Kimmel assembled a pretty sweet collection of celebrities for his “I’m F—ing Ben Affleck” video — Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford were just two of the A-list stars featured in the viral sensation — but there was one ’80s icon he just couldn’t land. “You know who we really wanted to be in it but couldn’t because of her schedule was Cyndi Lauper,” Kimmel says of the We Are the World veteran. “We thought it would be great to have her really belting it out right in the middle of the song. But God took Cyndi Lauper away from us and gave us Josh Groban. I think this is some of his best work.”

How did Pitt — who received what Kimmel exec producer Jill Leiderman calls an “impassioned plea” to sign on — wind up as a delivery dude? “It was the middle of the night and we had to give Brad ideas in the morning, and I just scratched out a bunch,” says Kimmel. “I really liked the FedEx idea, and he definitely picked the right one…. Turns out, he’s a very good actor. I think he just needed a part like this to really shine.”

Kimmel was also impressed with Harrison Ford and his commitment to the project. “We said, ‘You can be in one or two scenes. If you’re in one scene, you can be here from 11 to 1. And if you’re in two scenes you’ll have to be here from 11 to 5.’ Of course we fully expected he’d say, ‘One scene.’ [But] he said, ‘All right, I’ll be there from 11 to 5.’” The sight of Ford blowing a kiss at Kimmel and Affleck proved to be an out of body experience for the late-night host. “I think the word surreal is overused but this is the very definition of it,” he says. “And what I didn’t realize until afterward — somebody pointed this out — it seems like it’s a parody of a scene from American Graffiti… but that was completely coincidental.”

While Kimmel notes that he and Affleck had never met before this video — which can be seen again tonight on a repeat of Jimmy Kimmel Live! — it couldn’t have worked out better. “It was a gay blind date that went exceptionally well,” he says. “I didn’t know much about him personally but we really hit it off in between caressing each other.”

EW.com hears that Universal has talked to DirecTV about airing original episodes of Friday Night Lights. The TV company has been trying to shop the critically acclaimed drama to other networks because the Kyle Chandler drama hasn’t performed well for NBC; it only averaged 6 million-plus viewers this season, and typically finished third in its time slot. Universal also talked to The CW about picking up the drama, according to one insider, but the license fee could make the deal too prohibitive for the No. 5 network. The last episode of FNL aired on NBC Feb. 8.

Should Universal close a deal with DirecTV, this wouldn’t be a first for the studio and the satellite provider. Universal began producing original episodes of the daytime drama Passions for DirecTV in early 2007 after NBC canceled the low-rated sudser.

Kate Walsh (pictured with Tim Daly) may have been in this season’s second-highest rated new drama Private Practice (before it ran out of fresh episodes during the writers’ strike), but that doesn’t mean everything will remain status quo. Several sources confirm that creator Shonda Rhimes is hunting for another exec producer to spruce up her Grey’s Anatomy spin-off. Practice‘s Wednesday companion, Dirty Sexy Money, just hired it’s own EP, Daniel Cerone, executive producer of the 2004 CBS baseball drama Clubhouse. A footnote: Though Practice won’t return with new outings till the fall, ABC says there are no plans for Walsh to drop by Grey’s this spring.

Jim Belushi may not have to clean out his dressing room just yet. EW.com has learned that ABC is considering whether to pick up According to Jim for an eighth season. Though the show isn’t exactly breaking Nielsen records (its five telecasts this winter have averaged only 5.3 million viewers), the show has value in syndication and an extra season can only boost the company coffers. ABC declined to comment.

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Was it something Jon Stewart said? With 32 million viewers, last night’s Academy Awards telecast appears to be the least-watched Oscars in history. Preliminary numbers indicate that Sunday night’s show was down 21 percent in viewers from the previous year, when The Departed won best picture, and down 42 percent during Oscar’s peak season, when Titanic won in the 1998 ceremony. The previous low for an Oscar telecast was in 2003 (33.05 million), the year Chicago was named best pic.

Even so, the Oscars still rank as the second most-watched entertainment program this season behind the debut of American Idol last month (33.4 million).